Due to the COVID pandemic’s effects on the performing arts, requirements for consideration for 2021 Prize in Drama have been altered to accommodate the challenges faced by playwrights and theaters in producing new works this year.
For consideration in the 2021 Fiction, Poetry, Biography, Nonfiction and History Prize categories, please submit eligible work online by October 1, 2020. This year, all entries must be sent as ebooks. Read below for full details.
The 2016 Prize winner in Fiction and professor of English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board
Veteran Deputy Administrator Edward Kliment will serve as interim administrator as Prize Board launches nationwide search for Canedy’s successor.
The Pulitzer Prize Board is deeply disturbed by reports of journalists being harassed and assaulted by some law enforcement officers as news organizations report on the police killing of George Floyd and the resulting national protests and civil unrest.
The Pulitzer Prizes exclusively will accept books entered in electronic form for the 2021 awards. The change will affect the Biography, General Nonfiction, History, Fiction and Poetry Prize categories.
In celebration of the 104th class of Pulitzer Prize winners, watch Canedy virtually ring the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, and Aminda Marqués González, president, publisher and executive editor of the Miami Herald, have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Read coverage of the opera that received the 2019 Music Prize, cited by the Pulitzer Prize Board as "a courageous [...] work, marked by powerful vocal writing and sensitive orchestration."
This printable card, in the past distributed to attendees of the Pulitzer announcement event at Columbia University, is being made available online. It makes a great bookmark.
